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Science Granting Councils (SGCs) are pivotal boundary organisations in African research and innovation systems, mediating between government, academia and industry. This brief explores experiences of SGCs in 15 sub-Saharan African countries.

Carla Washbourne, Reader at CIM, has been re-appointed to chair the 2025-27 Steering Committee of UN-Habitat's Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO-Net).

Carla Washbourne (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and collaborators from University College London and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have published a new article in Data & Policy: "Behavioural perspectives on personal health data sharing and app design: an international survey study".

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The Governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, has launched the result of a year-long study by LSE Cities to improve urban policy design and delivery of Chile’s leading metropolitan region. CIM's Carla Washbourne contributed to this study as an international urban expert in the LSE Santiago Urban Age Task Force. Read more here:

The ‘Scaling Trust’ project is a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.

‘’ is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new ‘goal-based’ approach that has become influential in cyber policy.

‘Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security’ is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a ‘Zero Trust’ paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.